Which Would Explain a Lot
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“If anyone’s says.. gay couple blessings are blasphemy.. let him be anathema.. “
yeah that’s ah just about it.
And what if they do?
What exactly does a synodal bishop *do* with ten new SSPX priests? Such bishops aren’t equipped for this scenario. It didn’t come up in the synodality war games.
Should be concerned with pastoral care of NO clergy, the dearth of NO priests, and the lack of vocations in NO orders and diocese… that’s profoundly delusional.
The growth of vocations in TLM orders is far in excess of thier proportion for the SSPX, FSSP., and other smaller orders with formal Catholic status.
These men can justly proclaim they are faithfully holding to tradition and the deposit of fairh, so they may be lionized even further.
Those that do leave the SSPX would probably join another Traditionalist order anyway so there’s that too. Minimal pastoral care required there…
Awww, Tucho is concerned about dealing with the problem he’s creating? Sounds familiar.
The Pope has failed to address the Marco Rupnik problem and the Tucho “Heal me With your Mouth” Fernández problem … Isn’t there a line in the Confiteor about this kind of thing?
The movement will be more in the other direction, especially after Tucho follows his boss’s orders (my speculation) and drops the Novus Ordo hammer on the FSSP and the Eastern rites. In ten years the SSPX will be bigger than FSSP. You heard it here first. Just who will be in schism from whom? Was Athanasius in schism from the Arians? Think about it.
Amen Frank.
Tucho’s loading a canonical weapon that will fire in the opposite direction….
Fr. Z has an excellent article detailing the difficulties with Dignitatis humanae facing reconciliation with the SSPX … He really did some serious research for this one.
https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/ask-father-is-religious-liberty-in-dignitatis-humanae-the-same-as-before-the-vatican-ii-of-sspx-relevance-wherein-fr-z-also-makes-an-impassioned-plea-to-leo/
Frank, I believe the SSPX is already almost twice as large as the FSSP, with about 730 priests compared to the FSSP’s 360-ish.
The FSSP: